D60 board doesn’t discuss staff conduct

Pueblo City Schools (D60) board of education did not discuss proposed changes to its staff conduct policy at its board retreat on Tuesday.

The board met for three hours to discuss changes to other policies as part of an ongoing process to update them.

Among the policies scheduled to be discussed were the proposed changes to staff conduct, specifically the addition of a section to the policy on maintaining professional boundaries with students.

The board did not review any personnel policies on Tuesday.

District spokesman Scott Jones said the staff conduct policy changes will come before the board at its Feb. 25 regular board meeting.

The changes to the staff conduct policy were prompted by a request from school board member Rose Holloway to consider a policy that would allow board members to be notified sooner of complaints of abuse on students by staff.

The request came after Holloway claimed board members were not notified of the police investigation into then-South High School teacher Larisa Oringdulph, who was accused of sexting and kissing a 17-year-old student.

Police cleared Oringdulph of any criminal wrongdoing. She resigned her teaching position on Nov. 7.